
                         Roanoke Times
                 Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.

DATE: FRIDAY, December 17, 1993                   TAG: 9312170207
SECTION: VIRGINIA                    PAGE: B4   EDITION: STATE 
SOURCE: Associated Press
DATELINE: COLUMBIA, S.C.                                LENGTH: Short

CITADEL MAY JOIN VMI, ADOPT MARY BALDWIN PLAN

A private Virginia women's college is willing to discuss offering a leadership program for South Carolina women who otherwise might want to attend The Citadel, the state's all-male military college.

There is neither the demand nor the money to build a state women's college in South Carolina, a state legislative committee studying single-gender education concluded Thursday.

Instead, the panel suggested the state might reach agreements with private women's colleges - Columbia College in Columbia, Converse College in Spartanburg or Mary Baldwin College in Staunton, Va. - to provide leadership programs to expand opportunities for women.

A leadership program at Mary Baldwin has been proposed as an alternative to admitting women to Virginia Military Institute, which faces a federal order to admit women, go private or provide a parallel program for women.

Mary Baldwin administrators say they are willing to discuss a compact with South Carolina, said Frank Mood, committee chairman.

The single-gender education committee was created in response to challenges to The Citadel's men-only admissions policy. It and VMI are the only two state-supported, all-male military academies in the nation.

While it might be possible to create a women's program at an existing coeducational college, it would be difficult to do so, the committee concluded.

Memo: shorter version ran in the Metro edition.

by CNB